In previous years the standard deal was supervisor's bosses would sent an email to everyone that was supervised by them inviting any comments. Well this year I guess the new system is to ask X # of people for feedback about everyone who is being reviewed. I was not in the group of X for either my direct boss or our program team boss and I never saw any "hey you can offer generic feedback on managers" invites.
It is a good overall thing to ask a few people to give answers to focused questions for every person being reviewed. But its also a nice little dodge for managers that deserved to get some dings since their reviewer can choose *friendlies* to give that feedback versus inviting feedback from everyone who is living under their supervision.
Everyone is about breaking their arms patting themselves on the back for getting the first bits of data processed from our new satellites. They didn't see fit to mention that the sister agency in Taiwan had the first download analyzed before we got our little configuration issues ironed out; must only magnify their own success as much as possible.
Its why I love Trump so much. When he does his pep rally speeches he is always saying how "our military, our dedicated workers, etc etc have done an amazing job." This is especially refreshing after the last potus that always spoke "I did x, my plan worked, yada yada" And I'm not a total fan girl of Trump. I don't love his speaking style which often seems like trying to sell something. But Trump is always crediting americans, his voters, the military, etc etc when he is talking about any success instead of trying to claim all glory for any success but can't scapegoat fast enough for any failures like most politicians.
Our neighbors mom died last week. G and S used to be our neighbors and were great before they moved to AK and rented the place to their daughter and SiL who are also marvelous. I did not get a card out for them to take with them to funeral in IN. I've been thinking in terms of writing a card to leave for them when they get back and only thought "oh should send a card to funeral" Oh well. I sprayed goatsheads over there this morning. G used to tell my mom "someday I'm going to tame this yard" She did get quite a lot of nice trees going. Getting rid of as many of the nasty burrs as I can is my personal memorial to her feisty but fun and friendly spirit.
I kind of care less if toad boss(es) are at all put out that I missed meetings today because I didn't manage to fit both things in. I started with the early morning meeting, joining from home, but they were going over visuals but no one was sharing the ppt or whatever that to the meeting, only to the display monitor in the conference room, so it was going to be a total waste of time for me to sit at my laptop and only get the audio of them discussing the plots.
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